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Prominent Indian-American economist Raj Chetty has been awarded the coveted George Ledlie Prize for wielding big data to break myths about who achieves the American Dream and the obstacles faced by others.

Seattle has become the first US city to outlaw caste discrimination after its local council passed a resolution, moved by an Indian-American politician and economist, to add caste to its non-discrimination policy.

The Indian-American economist Gita Gopinath shared a photo where she and her parents were all dressed in traditional attire

Indian-American Gita Gopinath, Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund, has been promoted as its First Deputy Managing Director, or FDMD, after the current FDMD Geoffrey Okamoto announced she will leave early next year.

President-elect Joe Biden plans to nominate Center for American Progress Chief Executive Neera Tanden as director of the Office of Management and Budget and economist Cecilia Rouse as chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.

Indian-American economist Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo received the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences with Michael Kremer in Sweden on Tuesday. Mr Banerjee and Ms Duflo, who are married to each other, wore Indian attire for the awards ceremony at the Concert Hall in Stockholm.

Indian-American economist Abhijit Banerjee, who earlier this week won the prestigious Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, has been supporting the education of two children at a school in Dehradun in Jogiwala under the Kabir Memorial Scholarship.

Compliments flooded the social media when Indian-American economist Abhijit Banerjee and two others won the Nobel Prize for Economics for their efforts at alleviating global poverty on Monday. But it was a tweet from Nirmala Sitharaman, Finance Minister and Mr Banerjee's fellow-alumnus from the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, that stood o...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has congratulated Indian-American economist Abhijit Banerjee for winning the the Economics Nobel prize for his contribution in the alleviation of global economy.

Indian-American economist Abhijit Banerjee created headlines across the world today when he, along with two other world-renowned experts in field, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics for "their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty".

China is following a policy to make yuan the dominant currency, but currently it remains far behind the US dollar in international financial transactions unrelated to trade, Indian-American economist Gita Gopinath said.

Backing a second term for Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan, leading Indian-American economist at Princeton University Avinash Dixit said the central banker should have "full operational independence" when it comes to pursuing targets on employment, growth and inflation.

On Monday, an economist at the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute had something snarky to say about a new government report on the gap between men's and women's earnings.

Indian-American economist Arvind Panagariya has said that he is "honoured" to be appointed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the first Vice Chairman of the newly created NITI Aayog, which replaces the 65-year-old Planning Commission.

A replacement for the Planning Commission must be "lean and thin", a top Indian-American economist has said, even as he listed fiscal consolidation and trade and FDI liberalisation as key areas the new Indian government should focus on to return to high growth.

Prominent Indian-American economist Raj Chetty has been awarded the coveted George Ledlie Prize for wielding big data to break myths about who achieves the American Dream and the obstacles faced by others.

Seattle has become the first US city to outlaw caste discrimination after its local council passed a resolution, moved by an Indian-American politician and economist, to add caste to its non-discrimination policy.

The Indian-American economist Gita Gopinath shared a photo where she and her parents were all dressed in traditional attire

Indian-American Gita Gopinath, Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund, has been promoted as its First Deputy Managing Director, or FDMD, after the current FDMD Geoffrey Okamoto announced she will leave early next year.

President-elect Joe Biden plans to nominate Center for American Progress Chief Executive Neera Tanden as director of the Office of Management and Budget and economist Cecilia Rouse as chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.

Indian-American economist Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo received the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences with Michael Kremer in Sweden on Tuesday. Mr Banerjee and Ms Duflo, who are married to each other, wore Indian attire for the awards ceremony at the Concert Hall in Stockholm.

Indian-American economist Abhijit Banerjee, who earlier this week won the prestigious Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, has been supporting the education of two children at a school in Dehradun in Jogiwala under the Kabir Memorial Scholarship.

Compliments flooded the social media when Indian-American economist Abhijit Banerjee and two others won the Nobel Prize for Economics for their efforts at alleviating global poverty on Monday. But it was a tweet from Nirmala Sitharaman, Finance Minister and Mr Banerjee's fellow-alumnus from the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, that stood o...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has congratulated Indian-American economist Abhijit Banerjee for winning the the Economics Nobel prize for his contribution in the alleviation of global economy.

Indian-American economist Abhijit Banerjee created headlines across the world today when he, along with two other world-renowned experts in field, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics for "their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty".

China is following a policy to make yuan the dominant currency, but currently it remains far behind the US dollar in international financial transactions unrelated to trade, Indian-American economist Gita Gopinath said.

Backing a second term for Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan, leading Indian-American economist at Princeton University Avinash Dixit said the central banker should have "full operational independence" when it comes to pursuing targets on employment, growth and inflation.

On Monday, an economist at the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute had something snarky to say about a new government report on the gap between men's and women's earnings.

Indian-American economist Arvind Panagariya has said that he is "honoured" to be appointed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the first Vice Chairman of the newly created NITI Aayog, which replaces the 65-year-old Planning Commission.

A replacement for the Planning Commission must be "lean and thin", a top Indian-American economist has said, even as he listed fiscal consolidation and trade and FDI liberalisation as key areas the new Indian government should focus on to return to high growth.